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Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy

Brendan Sweetman
- 01 Feb 1997 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 1, pp 153-155
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This article is published in Review of Metaphysics.The article was published on 1997-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2568 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Democracy.

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Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

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The New Public Sphere: Global Civil Society, Communication Networks, and Global Governance

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Democracy and E-Rulemaking: Web-Based Technologies, Participation, and the Potential for Deliberation

TL;DR: The authors conducted an exploratory survey of 1,556 citizen participants in regulatory public comment processes in the United States and found modest evidence of the presence of deliberative democratic practices among them.
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Globalism and Tolerance in Early Modern Geography

TL;DR: This paper examined Abraham Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (1570), a distinctly Renaissance cosmographic project of representing the world's unity and diversity, placing it in the context of sixteenth-century neo-Stoicism, humanist rhetoric, and the metaphor of the world theater as a moral space.
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Homo Politicus and Argument (Nearly) All the Way Down: Persuasion in Politics

TL;DR: The role of argument and persuasion in international and domestic political practice has been examined in this paper, showing that it is argument (nearly) all the way down and that the scope of argument can be and in some cases has increased over the longue duree.
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Three dimensions of the public sphere on Facebook

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical analysis of the online public sphere in the three dimensions introduced by Dahlgren (2005): structural, representational and interactional, was performed on the largest social networking site and Polish users' activity on the Facebook Pages of political parties and politicians.
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State institutions and social identity: National representation in soldiers' and civilians' interview talk concerning military service

TL;DR: Findings from a qualitative interview study conducted in England, in which soldiers and civilians talked about nationhood in relation to military service, indicated that speakers were often inclined to use the terms 'Britain', 'nation', and 'country' as references to a political institution as opposed to a category of people.
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